"The engineering is secondary to the vision."

"I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer."

"After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies."

"Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by."

"In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better."